Written by Sheng-mei Ma. Part II of the article perceives Detention as a haunting of Taiwan’s White Terror, where Fang’s guilt, forbidden love, and suppressed memory recur through ghosts, banned texts, and images of facelessness and decapitation. Its hybrid cultural references reveal Taiwanese identity as historically layered, while headlessness symbolises political violence, erasure, and unresolved collective trauma.
Written by Sheng-mei Ma. This article focuses on self-alienation and the pursuit of Eurocentric beauty standards. It examines how Chinese linguistic biases and the prevalence of cosmetic surgery among celebrities reflect a subconscious, self-inflicted whitewashing that parallels historical settler colonialism and racial hierarchies.
Written by Sheng-mei Ma. This is Part II of the article. Through a close reading of the Chinese TV series Reset, the article argues that its recurring time loops, terrorism, and symbolic imagery allegorise authoritarian violence, historical repetition, and state repression in the People’s Republic of China, which ultimately frames Taiwan as the regime’s imagined final object of political and territorial consumption.
Written by Sheng-mei Ma. This is Part I of the article. Through a close reading of the Chinese TV series Reset, the article argues that its recurring time loops, terrorism, and symbolic imagery allegorise authoritarian violence, historical repetition, and state repression in the People’s Republic of China, which ultimately frames Taiwan as the regime’s imagined final object of political and territorial consumption.
Written by Yen Lin (mashbean) Huang. This article argues that Taiwan’s experience demonstrates that the digital space need not be characterised by quarrelling and indifference, or a tool for stronger control and deeper division. It can also be a space of digital collaboration that unites people and builds solidarity. The true divide lies not in which technology is adopted, but in whether society retains agency.
Written by Khadar Nouh Yonis. This article compares the media framing of the Taiwan-Somaliland partnership in Taiwan and Somaliland, and in China and Somali media. It found that the media discourse surrounding Taiwan-Somaliland relations is strategically built. The contrast between these discourses demonstrates that media do not only report events; they actively construct competing interpretations of legitimacy, power, and strategic interest.
